Using the Razor Engine to create PDFs
I've been using MVC 3 and the Razor syntax for a while now, and a while ago whilst reading how people were using Razor for their email templates I had the idea to use Razor to help create PDF templates. Now sadly it's been a while since I played around with this but I have only just started getting back on top of things so here's how I've done it. Components Used My solution is to write HTML templates using the Razor syntax and then to make use of the Razor View Engine for filling in the dynamic data. Then for the PDF creation to make use of iTextSharp library to generating the PDF documents from the generated HTML. iTextSharp is a free library that allows you to create PDF's using C#, unfortunatley its API is a bit of a pain to use natively so I have made use of Hugo Bonacci's HtmlToPdfBuilder.cs class to simply my interaction with the library. The first thing to do is to generate the HTML markup for out PDF. So fire up a new RazorViewEngine and load the v